Michael Weissenbacher wrote: >Hi, > > >>>of the movie. Now, just to know the format, I played it again, and as it >>>began, it blocked again... not even knoppix is downloading on the >>>background. >>> >>> >I just wanted to note that i observed that same bahavior. I tried >various things, like changing the kernel from preemption to no >preemtion, trying the various IO-Schedulers and trying 2.6.15, 2.6.16 >and 2.6.16-mm1. In the end i found out that there was a MAJOR >performance gain by adding the noatime mount option. Before i added that >I had to wait up to 20 minutes sometimes and now it doesn't stall more >than a few seconds, but it still does. Seems like reiser4 has very big >performance problems with the writing of atimes. > > I think this got fixed in recent versions, vs please comment.
>Another problem i had was specific to the reiser4-for-2.6.16-1.patch.gz >patch. I got a kernel crash two times now, but wasn't yet able to log >the error message anywhere because it would not let me write to the >reiser4 partition after the error. It never corrupted any data though, >fsck.reiser4 always reported a consistent fs. I'll try to trigger that >problem again and make another post. > >
